Abdesselam Jelloul is the man with highest IQ score in the world. He scored 198 in IQ test held in 2012. He holds the record to have highest score in Advance IQ test. The test included 13 different dimensions of intelligence including analytical, linguistics, spiritual, philosophical and 9 others.

And these are the most coherent of the websites I've found which mention this, and one of them says explicitly that the score isn't reliable. Who is this guy and where does he live? Who gave him the I.Q. test? Why should we think the people who tested him know what they're doing?

A good rule of thumb is that any claim of an I.Q. over 160 is probably nonsense. Ordinary I.Q. tests can't measure any higher than that. There are some odd tests that claim to be able to measure higher I.Q.'s, but their usefulness is disputed.

I don't mean to give racists any arguments, but here's another problem: just because the smartest (most intelligent, whatever) man in the world is black doesn't mean anything for black people in general. If you were to claim (and you would be very, very wrong) that black people are less intelligent than white people, a single outlier one way or another does not disprove that argument.

Abdesselam Jelloul is the man with highest IQ score in the world. He scored 198 in IQ test held in 2012. He holds the record to have highest score in Advance IQ test. The test included 13 different dimensions of intelligence including analytical, linguistics, spiritual, philosophical and 9 others.

I'm beginning to think "Abdesselam Jelloul" is nothing more than a name that I.Q. company made up to promote their tests. There is no Wiki cite for him, no personal information, nothing in Google images-nothing but a bunch of sites parrotting the same "13 dimensions of intelligence" bull.

Advance IQ test, I think. And if a test that measures attributes including philosophical, moral, spiritual, and naturalist intelligence sounds like a gigantic bunch of baloney to you... congratulations. I think the OP copy and pasted the "highest IQ score in the world" text from some other side promoting this company or its test and is speculating about the identity of the guy the company says got the highest score.

So, if the local Mensa chapter booked one of those hotel conference rooms for their latest meeting, and so many people showed up that the fire marshal said 'no more', but then Abdesselam arrived, what method would they use to select the member to be expelled so they can let the new Smartest Man in the World in?

Abdesselam Jelloul is the man with highest IQ score in the world. He scored 198 in IQ test held in 2012. He holds the record to have highest score in Advance IQ test. The test included 13 different dimensions of intelligence including analytical, linguistics, spiritual, philosophical and 9 others.

Abdesselam Jelloul sounds like he could be a black man.........

This is scientifically impossible. You see, a high-functioning intelligence requires a larger blood flow to the brain. And of course, this excludes Negroes, because so much of their blood volume is taken up supplying it to their larger penises. Plus, their ancestors developed skills throwing bananas at each other and not building shelter from the cold, so they excell at sports, not problem-solving.

(we tend towards the Left on this board, so, "to each according to his needs," this post was our contribution for your need for a racist response. Sorry if it seems perfunctory, but that's Socialism for you)

I'm beginning to think "Abdesselam Jelloul" is nothing more than a name that I.Q. company made up to promote their tests. There is no Wiki cite for him, no personal information, nothing in Google images-nothing but a bunch of sites parrotting the same "13 dimensions of intelligence" bull.

My first response to this is: Who cares? Even if we assume that the claim is accurate, which as others have pointed out doesn't seem likely, what is it supposed to prove? I'm assuming this is an attack on those who claim that blacks are less intelligent than other races, but pointing out a single extreme example doesn't tell us anything useful about the population as a whole.

Also, assuming the 198 IQ is using the typical 15 points per standard deviation, that's roughly 6.5 standard deviations above the mean. That's going to be ridiculously close to zero and, as a result, almost impossible to measure with any sort of reasonable accuracy.

So, let's sum up:
-We have no idea if the report is true - if this guy exists, if he took this IQ test, or if he scored a 198.
-If it IS true, it's highly doubtful that the IQ test is meaningful, or that a score of 198 is technically possible on that test.
-If he DID score a 198 on this test, we don't actually know that he's black, or Middle Eastern, or whatever. Basically, we're assuming he's one of the foreign-type colors, because he has a funny-sounding name.
-If he truly IS a genius of your favorite oppressed racial group, that doesn't really mean anything, because one individual tells us exactly nothing about what your favorite oppressed racial group as a whole is like.
-Even if this DID mean that your favorite oppressed racial group is way smarter than the rest of us, that wouldn't actually matter to racists, because they've never been interested in facts.

So, let's sum up:
-We have no idea if the report is true - if this guy exists, if he took this IQ test, or if he scored a 198.
-If it IS true, it's highly doubtful that the IQ test is meaningful, or that a score of 198 is technically possible on that test.
-If he DID score a 198 on this test, we don't actually know that he's black, or Middle Eastern, or whatever. Basically, we're assuming he's one of the foreign-type colors, because he has a funny-sounding name.
-If he truly IS a genius of your favorite oppressed racial group, that doesn't really mean anything, because one individual tells us exactly nothing about what your favorite oppressed racial group as a whole is like.
-Even if this DID mean that your favorite oppressed racial group is way smarter than the rest of us, that wouldn't actually matter to racists, because they've never been interested in facts.

you guys think this whole thing is BS.... is 198 really unreliable score?

Yes. On any standard intelligence test. It would be like scoring a 2.

Of course, anyone can set up an arbitrary scale for their own tests which goes up to whatever they want, but that is exactly like asking just how much louder it is if you just had special knobs made which go up to 11.